Note 41 — ENGLISH LAW BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST
Reading edition
There is a curious French variant of the cold-water ordeal in which not the accused person, but some bystander taken at random, is immersed: I do not know of any English example.
Reading edition
There is a curious French variant of the cold-water ordeal in which not the accused person, but some bystander taken at random, is immersed: I do not know of any English example.